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CHARLES E. OUNNINGHAMV AND FREDERICK W. DANKMEYER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

COMBINED STOOL AND TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 510,411, dated December 12, 1893.

Application filed July 14, 1892. Renewed May 13, 1893. Serial No. 474,087. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that we, CHARLES E. CUNNING- HAM and FREDERICK W. DANKMEYER, citizens of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Stool and Table, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combination stool and table and has for one of its objects to providea piano stool with a reversible seat whereby when one side of the seat is uppermost a cushion is exposed, and when the other is uppermost the area or surface may be extended to serve as a stand or table.

Another object is to provide a pianostool with a receptacle for books, sheet-music or other articles.

A still further object is to provide a pianostool with a sliding game-board which may be withdrawn and exposed on top of the stool where a game can be played.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a stool with our improvements. Fig. 2 is a section of the stool-top. Fig. 3 is alsoasection of the stooltop but in the transverse direction from that shown in Fig. 2. FigAc isa view of the stooltop reversed, e'. e., turned bottomside uppermost. Fig. 5is a side view of the stool-top as seen when converted into a stand or table.

The stool top comprises a rectangular box, A, mounted on a suitable lifting pedestal, B, which in the present instance is shown as a screw working in a base, O. Any other means beside the screw may, however, be employed to raise and lower the box. One side of the box is provided with a hinged door, a, by which access is had vto it without removing the seat; this box forms a receptacle for books, sheet-music or'other articles.

A cushioned seat, D, is mounted on a board, e, and a removable frame, f, which set loosely upon the box, A, and are adapted to be reversed on the box or turned with the cushion downward. The side of the removable frame, f, opposite that where the cushion is attached, has two leaves, G, secured to said frame by 5o hinges, h; these leaves may be turned toward each other and thus fold dat against the removable frame,f, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, or they may be turned away from each other and serve as extensions to the frame, thus increasing its area or surface as in Fig. 5, and adapting it for the purposes of a stand or table.

It is to be understood that the cushioned seat having on its lower side hinged leaves for a table-top may be supported on a box of any suitable construction; whether just like that shown is immaterial.

The leaves, G, are provided with suitable braces, to support them when they are serving as an' extension of the top, as in Fig. 5. These braces in the present instance, are in the form of blocks or plates, I, secured by hinges, j, to the leaves; thus when the brace is turned to bring its edge in contact with the leaf, G, as in Fig. 5, it serves to supportit by reason of its end, 7c, bearing against the side of the box, A; when not in use the brace is turned to bring its fiat side in contact with the leaf, as in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, and is confined in this position by a suitable catch or holder device. In the present instance this catch is in the form of a turn-button, Z, which is shown with a prong to take over the edge of the brace.

The box, A, has in each corner a block, m, which serves for the edges of the braces to come against when the seat is in the position seen in Figs. 2 and 3, and for the edge of the cushion and board, e, to come against when the seat is in the position seen in Fig. 5; thus these cornerblocks, m, keep the seat or tabletop from shifting laterally.

The removable frame, f, and seat, has a sliding board, n, which tits in the frame under the cushion-seat and board, e, and draws out as indicated in Fig. 3; said frame being provided with grooves in its inner sides and the board fn. having tongues which engage lsaid grooves. The sliding board terminates at the handle-end in a strip as Wide as the frame, f,

and tongues end at this strip; the latter does not extend suflciently to interfere with the hinges, h. This sliding board is designed to have one side plain and one side checkered and is adapted to be drawn out and replaced in which the board is mounted, and the grooves so that when the parts are adjusted as in Fig. 5, if it is to be used as an ordinary stand, the plain side may be exposed, and if it is to be used fora game the checkered side may be exposed. The sliding board has n. knob, et', to facilitate drawing it out.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that provision is made for converting a piano-stool into a stand or table with extensionleaves; for a receptacle for music books or other articles; and for a gaine-board which may be reversed and its back used as a standtop.

It is obvious that various changes in con struction and forni maybe runde in carrying;` out or embodying this invention; this patent therefore is not limited merely to the structure shown.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination, a lifting` pedestal; a snitable box mounted on said pedestal; and a reversible seat setting loosely on the bercy-said seat havinga cushion and on the opposite side extension leaves.

The combination of a. box suitably sup ported; and a reversible toppiece re'stiu..nr loosely on said box and havinga cushioned seat on one side which tits down in the box when the top-piece is in one position, and havingextension leaveson theopposite side vvhich tit down in the box when the top-piece is reversed. n

3. In eombinaton,aliftingpedestal; asuitable box mounted on said pedestal and provided in its side with u hinged door; a iframe having on one side a cushion seat and on the other hinged leaves,-snid frame setting loosely on the box and adapted to be reversed.

In testimony whereof we atix onrsignatures in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. CUNNINGHAM FREDERICK W. Ii .-\NKiNEYEH.

Witnesses:

LEoNHARD PLAEssEn, 

